xiv, 513 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm

"This remarkable book throws new light on the history and travels of Greeks in the eighth century B.C., the formative age of the great epics of Homer. Drawing on a lifetime's familiarity with Greek literature and history, many recent archaeological discoveries and the author's own travels to its main sites around the Mediterranean, it shows how similar travels shaped the Greeks' myths about their gods and heroes, and relates them to particular places and stories in the east and west. It credits particular Greeks for the first time with a trail of discoveries about their gods and battles which seemed to stretch from one end of their world to the other."--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-501) and index

1. Hera's Flight -- 2. From China to Cadiz -- 3. Travelling Heroes -- 4. Home and Away -- 5. Travelling Settlers -- 6. Up to Unqi -- 7. Potamoi Karon -- 8. Beyond Ithaca -- 9. Monkey Islands -- 10. Back on Euboea -- 11. Finding Neverland -- 12. Lost in Translation -- 13. Travelling Prophet -- 14. Travelling Lovers -- 15. Travelling Mountain -- 16. Great Castrator -- 17. Travelling Monsters -- 18. Base-camp to Battlefield -- 19. Homeric Horizons -- 20. View from Ascra -- 21. Just So Stories -- Dating of Homer

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